How to Survive Living at Home for the Summer

By Andreas Fanos on June 26, 2018

College lasts about 8-9 months and then there is plenty of free time over the summer. Summer is the best season/opportunity to get ahead by taking summer courses or working a job or finding an internship. If that is not in the cards, then here are some things that you can do to survive living at home for the summer.

It might sound horrible, living at home for the summer, however, it just gives you ample time to maybe fix up your resume and add activities or internships to it. There are plenty of opportunities to find internships online right from your home and ones that you can do. Students can do an internship, especially being a writing or communications major, writing for websites hiring and working as a freelance writer. There are plenty of chances out there to snag an internship for the summer while staying at home with websites like WayUp.com, Indeed, among others.

You could also even take courses online from your home or maybe you want to work on and launch that book you have been planning on releasing online to the public. You can also make playlists for the summer on Spotify. Starting your own T-shirt business or some other business can be a great way to spend time doing something for yourself and making money or working on your brand if you already have one.

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Why not also read a novel or anything else over the summer living at home? Reading, along with writing, will only continue to improve your cognitive skills and help you out in the long run as college will be more difficult later on after the first year. Another obvious activity to survive at home for the summer can be Netflix binging and watching countless hours of movies or TV shows. There has to be some shows that you can catch up on. Hanging out with friends is also another option for the summer, although some could be busy taking vacations or taking summer courses. There has to be some individuals who are also staying home for the summer, so message those friends and see what they are doing!

One of my most personal favorite things to do over the summer at home is playing video games. Playing online with friends or just playing the campaign for different games is so much fun. Playing video games is a terrific way to rid boredom and de-stress. College can be a very busy time, so the summer lays the opportunity to play video games in the summer.

Summer can be excruciating spending it at home while others can be on vacation or visiting family elsewhere or taking summer courses, but the summer is not lost! There are always other options and activities to do while sitting at home, so do these and make it a memorable one. Summer is what you make of it!

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